Improvement in water-closets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH H. cEAIGIE, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEM ENT INl WATER-CLOS ETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0.'53,119, dated March 13, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGH H. Centern, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Water-Closets, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, where- 1n- Figure lis a plan of a closet fitted With said improvement, and Fig. 2 Ais a vertical section of the same.

Similar marks ot' reference denote the same parts.

Heretot'ore an apparatus has been made that is known as a Bedctt basin,77 in which a stationary pipe is tted beneath a seat, so that a jet of water may be thrown on the person, for the prevention or cure of piles, and for otherwise cleansing and rendering healthy the parts. This character ot' basin, however, was not adapted to the general uses ot a water-closet, and hence had to be tted up as a separate device, adapted only to the aforesaid use.

The nature of my said invention consists in a movable pipe adapted to a Water-closet ot' any desired construction, said movable pipe being so fitted that it can be turned into position for directing a jet of water upward upon the person, and when not in use is to be turned up out of theway, so that the water-closet will not be obstructed, but may be used in the ordinary manner.

In the drawings I have represented my improvement as applied to an ordinary basin or pan closet. In this t is the metal trunk; b, the porcelain basin. c is the seat, and d the pan, all ot which parts may be ot' any desired character.

e is a standard affixed to the trunk a or other convenient support; and this standard carries a cock, f, to which is connected the supply-ripe 9- his a key or handle by which to turn the cock f, and upon this is a toothed segment, i, taking a similar segment, l, upon the turning pipe lc, at the end otl which pipe 7c is a rose or jet perforation; and the segments iandl work together like bevel-gears, and the teeth separate from each other after the pipe k has been turned down.

It will now be seen that, the segment t' being farther from the center of f than the segment Z is from the center of 7c, the pipe 'lc will receive about a quarter-rotation by about oneeighth turn ot' the handle h, and in so doing the curved pipe 7c Will be brought from its normal horizontal position into a central position to the water-closet, so that the jets of water can be thrown vertically upon the person, and the teeth of the segments l and i, separating, leave the pipe 7c stationary, while the handle h can be turned for allowing the water to pass through the cock more or less freely, and thus regulate the force thereof.

I here remark that I do not limit myself to any particular mechanism for moving the pipe, or to the shape ot' the same, nor its mode ot' introduction to the water-closet, as the basin of the closet might be specially prepared for its insertion for use or withdrawal when not in use; or the water-pipe 7c may be turned down into position by one pull of handle, while the supply ot' water is regulated by a second handle or key; or, in the pan-closet, the aforesaid pipe for the water may be turned down in the movable pan and between it and the lower end of the porcelain basin, the parts being located within the trunk c instead of being outside, as shown.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A movable pipe for directing a jet or jets of Water upward, as arranged in relation to a water-closet, substantially as and for the purposes speciied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 19th day of October, 1865.

H. H. ORAIGIE.

Witnesses Guns. H. SMITH, GEO. D. WALKER. 

